Top 80 People Stealing Quotes
#1. Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.
Steve Jobs
#2. Don't worry about people stealing an idea," he once told a student. "If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Walter Isaacson
#3. Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken
#4. My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.
Kevin Mitnick
#5. My dad's cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He became paranoid and thought people were stealing from him, when often he was just misplacing things.
Tess Gerritsen
#6. And since when is stealing people's possessions the call of God? you are all hypocrites who have suddenly come into power, and you don't know how to handle it
Dalia Sofer
#7. Leadership isn't something that people hand to you ... [i]t's a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority. And that's something we can teach.
Seth Godin
#8. People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
Vincent Cassel
#9. Sometimes people may anger you, but realise that they are stealing your energy. Someone can only steal your energy if YOU allow them to.
Steven Aitchison
#10. Thomas slammed his fist on the table, sending eating utensils flying. "Shameful! It is downright shameful that so-called men of God would use religion to manipulate people."
--from Prairie Grace when Thomas learns how the Indian agents and others are stealing from Native Americans
Marilyn Bay Wentz
#11. They were a wonderful set of burglars, the people who were running San Francisco when I first came to town in 1923, wonderful because, if they were stealing, they were doing it with class and style.
Sally Stanford
#12. There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution channel for stolen property called the Internet. So there will always be illegal music on the Internet.
Steve Jobs
#13. I don't take jokes from other people. It's really not cool to steal jokes from anybody. It's not cool to steal anything from anybody. Jokes are no different.
Brian Regan
#14. Some people just needed to be stolen from.
Eoin Colfer
#15. I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.
Sarah Kane
#16. Gimme thousands of choices of joy and glory. gimme dreaming promises that lift up my intention.
I won't take one of them at all cos I've chosen my own and it's you
Neo Wasiman
#17. Many of the people who we think of as lone geniuses were actually part of a whole scene of people who were supporting each other, looking at each other's work, copying from each other, stealing ideas, and contributing ideas.
Austin Kleon
#18. It seems to me that you and I were made for each other. I am your best friend's best friend and we both have a taste for stealing other people's jewellery.
P.G. Wodehouse
#19. So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.
Bikram Choudhury
#20. Oh, the terrible, crushing, breath-stealing burden of people who think they own you!
Anne Tyler
#21. Why are people so interested in other people's relationships? It's like stealing.
Marlee Matlin
#22. You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#23. When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.
Eminem
#24. Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb
Valerie Plame
#25. It's amazing [ ... ] how perfectly honest people who would starve rather than steal sixpence, will steal books without compunction.
Jill Paton Walsh
#26. Dr. Stanpole's car was at the top of it, headlights on and motor running, empty. I idly considered stealing it, in the way that people idly consider many crimes it would be possible for them to commit.
John Knowles
#27. With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people.
Adolf Hitler
#28. Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.
Julian Barnes
#30. My fear was actually the cause of my inability to trust people. Fear of being deceived. Fear of being lied to. My fear of people was stealing from me the freedom of thought.
Otsuichi
#31. I don't forgive people.Just ask Shauna Bradley. We were best friends in kindergarten until I discovered she was the one stealing the fruit snacks from my desk. She lost my trust that day, and
even now when I see her, I have to refrain myself from shouting, Why? Why did you do it?!
Nicole Christie
#32. The only way I can stop people from stealing is also not to steal myself, and it's one of the most difficult things.
Rick McCallum
#33. (The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.)
John Elder Robison
#34. For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.
Marilyn French
#35. We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.
Peter Singer
#36. Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another.
Robert Nozick
#37. But those coins are wishes! You're stealing other people's wishes!"
The look Matteo gave her was so flinty, she could have chipped a tooth on it. "If you have money to waste on wishes, you don't need the wishes as badly as I need the money.
Katherine Rundell
#38. People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
H.L. Mencken
#39. Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go ... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends ...
Taylor Swift
#40. If, instead of saying that thieves will go to prison or liars will go to hell, we could make people think that stealing is as bad as going to a funeral in a coloured tie, or lying as bad as frying a sausage on the parlour fire, we should achieve a colossal reformation.
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset
#41. CDs are clearly dying out, and it's going to be moving to an all-digital format. Along with it, you raise this interactivity with the music. I feel that it's not stealing sales from anyone; it's turning people on to the music.
Girl Talk
#42. If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research
Guthrie Govan
#43. Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.
Steve Jobs
#44. Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.
Tim Heidecker
#45. A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.'
'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly.
'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong ...
John Marsden
#46. Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.
Debbie Harry
#47. And the cameras came and went, stealing pieces of our lives to entertain the people.
Kiera Cass
#48. I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together ... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.
Denis Johnson
#49. If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.
C. JoyBell C.
#50. They were surrounded by people, seemingly enjoying the company, but they kept stealing glances at each other as if everything else were just a distraction. It
Sonali Dev
#51. Desperately struggling, kicking down other people.
Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over.
And even so, you aim for the horizon over the hills.
That's why humans are so interesting ...
Yana Toboso
#52. Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy.
Jim Hightower
#53. I lived a dangerous life. Stealing cars, I could have been shot. Robbing people, I could have been killed. Nothing in existence holds any terror for me. When I was sentenced to death, it didn't hold anything for me.
Richard Ramirez
#54. I don't know, scene stealing is something I see as, people look at it, it could be a positive thing, but I really like to think of myself as a team player. It's kind of like one player can make the other teammates better, kind of like Larry Byrd dishing off.
Kevin Dillon
#55. When I got to the street, I walked boldly. But I was always accompanied by an agonizing thought: the fear that honest people may be thieves who have chosen a cleverer and safer way of stealing.
Jean Genet
#56. No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt
#57. Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
Dan Ariely
#58. ... God, it's over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people's problems and get some of your own.
John Green
#59. Tobacco kills a lot of people, but cigarette vending machines are killing that woman by stealing her job.
Otsuichi
#60. I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.
Laurie Simmons
#61. I watched as that dark blob walked out into traffic, then was violently struck by a car. Yup, that's me. I was somewhat proud of humanity when I saw that a few people immediately came over to me to see if I was okay, rather than stealing my wallet or completely ignoring me.
Dennis Liggio
#62. I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.
Ferdinand Marcos
#63. St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
Bertrand Russell
#64. My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!
John Dillinger
#65. I've heard this is what you do,' he said. 'Stealing to feed people.' His head went to the side. 'It's so ... strange.
A.C. Gaughen
#66. One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.
Mike Judge
#67. Don't you find that a terribly romantic idea? Love stealing in to overtake two people who'd believe they were merely friends?
Cecilia Grant
#68. People are running huge enterprises off of hacking and stealing data.
Tim Cook
#69. I never felt like I was stealing anyone's fans as much as I was introducing some younger people to comedy who will eventually find tons of other comedians that they love.
Bo Burnham
#70. I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from its little ones while an animal, perhaps, was not.
Kang Chol-Hwan
#71. It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
John Hawkes
#72. I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and then presuming or assuming or captioning. Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back.
Madonna Ciccone
#73. Destroying walls and stealing rare artifacts is one thing. People forgive. I'll make eternal enemies if I mess up people's hair and they have to cut some off.
Richard Roberts
#74. Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.
Ani DiFranco
#75. Saint Cath, please guide my eyes, she prays, and keep my hands from stealing. She has to pray her prayer, or things from good people end up in her pack, and she hates that about herself.
Dylan Landis
#76. People will steal it if you don't make it easy to buy it.
Charlie Ergen
#77. Why does the subconscious mind make people steal? Why does it have to be stealing? Don't you think it's something deep-rooted in our nature?
Fuminori Nakamura
#78. Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?
Helene Hanff
#79. Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.
Tucker Max
#80. They were her kidnappers, sailing her across the lawn and into the backseat of the car, lifting up her feet while pivoting her around in a way that was disturbingly professional, as if stealing old people was what they did.
Ann Patchett
